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For most of the past 16 years, Jon Wolles has worked in San Francisco and Silicon Valley for a variety of companies, including Friendster, Zynga, Yahoo and others. But 13 months ago, he packed up his bags and headed to northern New Mexico to manage staffing and recruiting at Descartes Labs.
Wolles already knew Descartes Labs’ CEO Mark Johnson and said he believed in him and the company’s satellite technology, which currently forecasts agriculture production around the globe. That initially ... Read More

In June 2015, Descartes Labs CEO Mark Johnson looked down from his plane to views of northern New Mexico’s Jemez and Sangre de Cristo mountains, and realized he was home.
Six months earlier, he’d left everything behind in San Francisco—where he’d launched several successful startups—to move to Los Alamos to launch Descartes.
Johnson really doesn’t seem like a middle-of-nowhere kind of guy. A Stanford grad who started Zite, which CNN bought in 2011 and turned into Flipboard, he’s got the ... Read More